bigamia

noun

The verdict

“bigamia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #71,532 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#71,532
frequency rank, Portuguese
840
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - estado de uma pessoa que convive de forma marital com outras duas ao mesmo tempo.

Corpus desk

Index PT-bigamia · bigamia · Portuguese

bigamia · rank #71,532 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #71,532
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 840
  • PHOTO-FINISH Bild

Nearest frequency peer: Bild (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Ranks da cauda longa perto de “bigamia”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bigamia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bigamia
PropertyValue
Headwordbigamia
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#71,532
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “bigamia” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).bigamiacai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “Bild” (#71,533), “bark” (#71,519), “bagatela” (#71,512). Entre 840 lemas com “B”, “bigamia” fica em #71,532. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bigamia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #71,532 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bigamia, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is bigamia, spelled B-I-G-A-M-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    estado de uma pessoa que convive de forma marital com outras duas ao mesmo tempo.
  2. 2
    condição do bígamo

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how bigamia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. No Brasil a bigamia é considerada um crime

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bigamia"?
"bigamia" is spelled B-I-G-A-M-I-A.
What does "bigamia" mean?
As a noun, "bigamia" means: estado de uma pessoa que convive de forma marital com outras duas ao mesmo tempo.
What language does "bigamia" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bigamia", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list